Local church reaches out to community during lockdown
The church works closely with the Tumelong Mission, which is a non-profit, public benefit organisation focusing on community development.
The St Francis of Assisi Anglican Church and Waterkloof Community Action Network (CAN) launched an outreach programme during Covid-19.
CAN is a Covid-19 community response programme, which falls under the Gauteng Together Initiative.
“We are offering services and help in these difficult times to anyone who could use a little,” Diana Higgs from the church said.
CAN was started in Cape Town, at the start of the lockdown, by a group of concerned citizens who wanted to do something for people in communities that would be suffering during this time.
“It has subsequently become part of the Gauteng Together Initiative and is supported by the Ahmed Kathrada Foundation. It has recently become a part of the landscape in Pretoria, to ready our communities for the inevitable spread of Covid-19,” Higgs explained.
For now, CAN is focusing on areas in the east of Pretoria such as Brooklyn, Waterkloof, Monument Park, Garsfontein, Menlyn, Nieu Muckleneuk, Groenkloof and Hatfield. As time goes, they would like to reach more areas around Pretoria.
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